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Strongyloides ratti

BioProject PRJEB125 | Data Source Wellcome Sanger Institute | Taxonomy ID 34506

About Strongyloides ratti

The nematode Strongyloides ratti, or rat threadworm, is a minute common gastro-intestinal parasite of the rat. S. ratti is a laboratory analogue of the human parasite, S. stercoralis.

Genome Assembly & Annotation

Assembly

The reference genome was assembled by the Parasite Genomic group at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, in collaboration with Mark Viney (University of Bristol), using a combination of capillary, 454 and Illumina paired-end sequence and genetic map data, and improved using bespoke manual and automated tools (WTSI Strongyloididae Nematode Genomes Project, Hunt et al. (2016)).

Annotation

The gene predictions were made by the Parasite Genomics group at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute as part of the Strongyloididae Nematode Genomes Project, Hunt et al. (2016). An in-house automatic pipeline (based around AUGUSTUS plus MAKER) was used to generate first-pass gene models, and this was followed by a round of targeted manual curation of selected gene families.

Key Publications

Assembly Statistics

AssemblyS_ratti_ED321_v5_0_4, GCA_001040885.1
Database VersionWBPS18
Genome Size43,166,851
Data SourceWellcome Sanger Institute
Annotation Version282

Gene counts

Coding genes12,464
Non coding genes509
Small non coding genes509
Gene transcripts13,070

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